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SOU seeking student fellows for new Community Resilience and Leadership programJanuary 22, 2026 - 9:30 am
Plans paused for older adult living community at SOUJanuary 22, 2026 - 9:19 am
New book suggests transformation of education and educatorsJanuary 13, 2026 - 9:50 am
SOU grad’s beverage cooler idea pivots toward humanitarian useJanuary 5, 2026 - 10:05 am
United Way CEO appointed to SOU Board of TrusteesNovember 19, 2025 - 2:54 pm
Open textbook report: 11,000 SOU students, $1.9 million savedNovember 18, 2025 - 11:06 am
Design Patterns and AI: Computer Science evolves at SOUNovember 10, 2025 - 9:07 am
SOU’s Small Business Development Center to closeNovember 10, 2025 - 8:47 am
Graduate and current student present SOU research at national conferenceNovember 3, 2025 - 8:00 am
Gift from SOU alumni leads to partnerships in GhanaOctober 27, 2025 - 10:31 am
SOU expands special education to meet regional needsOctober 17, 2025 - 8:05 am
SOU board chair receives highest Chamber honorOctober 7, 2025 - 10:56 am
SOU grad’s beverage cooler idea pivots toward humanitarian use
/in Alumni, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. Build a better beer cooler, and you just may save lives. Mark Morrison set out to do that – build a tech-heavy, personal-use cooler to keep a beverage cold – when he realized that his invention may have […]
Gift from SOU alumni leads to partnerships in Ghana
/in Academics, Alumni, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — A couple who gained a global perspective and the academic foundation for success from their education at Southern Oregon University are funding a pilot project to provide similar opportunities for others, through a partnership between SOU and a pair of universities in the African country of Ghana. The program begins this academic […]
Four to receive annual SOU alumni awards
/in Alumni, Press Releases, Recognitions(Ashland, Ore.) — This year’s Southern Oregon University alumni award winners will be a business lawyer who has conducted an investigation of Las Vegas city officials and managed litigation for a $4 billion real estate firm; a lifelong educator who has written three books and made more than 500 educational presentations; a former legislator who […]
SOU students step up for solar energy project
/in Alumni, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — A solar energy project approved recently by Southern Oregon University’s student government will generate both electricity and a steady flow of income for the university’s Student Food Pantry. The Associated Students of SOU gave the go-ahead to spend $91,768 from the ASSOU Green Fund on a sustainability student’s proposal to replace an […]
SOU alum returns to screen Klamath River film
/in AlumniThe SOU Alumni Association and multiple campus partners will present a screening of the award-winning documentary “A River Between Us,” about the Klamath River, that was written and produced by 1992 SOU graduate Jason Atkinson. He will return to campus for the free event at 1 p.m., Friday, April 11, in the Art Building’s Meese […]
SOU alumni receive awards for their work and service
/in Alumni, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — A Colorado State University professor who is helping develop the Periodic Table of Food; the founder and executive director of a nonprofit that protects Siskiyou backcountry trails; a former La Clinica CFO and current equity policy strategist with the Oregon Health Authority; and the CEO of a Beaverton-based computer software company and […]
Four receive SOU alumni awards for work and service
/in Alumni, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — A graphic novelist, television producer and retired corporate CEO; a geriatric nurse practitioner, designer of retirement housing and nursing school founder; a retired credit union CEO and financial literacy proponent; and a partner in a Portland distillery and youngest master distiller in the U.S. have been recognized as this year’s Southern Oregon […]
Recent SOU business grad earns tourism award
/in Academics, AlumniNicole Waehner, who earned her bachelor’s degree in business with a concentration in tourism management last June from Southern Oregon University, was awarded the Rising Star Award at this month’s Oregon Governor’s Conference on Tourism in Portland. The Rising Star Award recognizes an individual who is new to the tourism industry within the past five […]
SOU alumnus and Foundation Board member inducted into inventors’ academy
/in Alumni, RecognitionsDaniel A. Henderson, a 1984 graduate of Southern Oregon University and emeritus member of the SOU Foundation Board of Trustees, is among 169 innovators worldwide who have been inducted in this year’s class of fellows in the National Academy of Inventors. Henderson is best known for his patented invention of wireless picture and video messaging […]
Guanajuato students visit SOU for collaborative business development project
/in Academics, Alumni, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University is hosting nine business students this week from Universidad de Guanajuato, and will send nine SOU students to the Mexican university next month as the two longtime sister campuses launch a new collaboration on multicultural business development as part of a far-reaching program under the U.S. Department of State’s […]